The phone app (by Google) has 700 mb of data on the phone. What is that? Call history? Contacts? Then what is in the contacts app? Is it safe to delete?

Stock Pixel 6a

  • evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    2 months ago

    It’s a drop in the bucket though. I’d be shocked if it was more than 1%. So it doesn’t explain anything.

    • 299792458ms@lemmy.zipEnglish
      1·
      2 months ago

      Hey man, I did not mean to say that all 700MB were basically telemetry. I was only trying to say that the services purpose is data collection, implying that the app itself (GUI) and the integration of those services are responsible of the size of the app.

      • evo@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1·
        2 months ago

        the app itself (GUI) and the integration of those services are responsible of the size of the app.

        That’s < 100MB for me.

        • 299792458ms@lemmy.zipEnglish
          22·
          2 months ago

          Ok, and what is you point? The app I use is under 10MB and the data under 1MB. I do not know how can a log of calls and contact list be over 500MB. Another app I tested 18MB and 200KB of data. So you either have a contact list over 100 000 contacts or google contacts is abnormally huge. In the end is still 5-10x the size of alternative contact/dialer apps.